Marry into it... at least your partner could make money (or came from parents who knew how to).

Lottery... you lucked into money.

The lottery is the only one I can see that doesn't have some sort of positive surrounding it. Those who were born into it and those who married into it would both likely look down upon you. Of course, who really cares what people might think of them for being lottery winners? I'd love for my biggest "problem" to be that some snooty country club member doesn't think I'm fit to join them.

Winning the lottery wouldn't make me no nevermind what other people think.

For me it'd be kinda like a line from that Johnny Cash song, A Boy Named Sue:

"Some girl'd giggle and I'd get red and some guy'd laugh and I'd bust his head"

lol I agree. What stigma for wealth? I don't get these people worrying about not being "accepted" into the country club and treated "right" if they win the lottery. If you basically get along with people before and are accepted, it will be the same afterwards (unless you are some of the people profiled on LCML or are the" Justin Bieber" in your neighborhood). If you spend your whole life whining about some people in high school having more "clout" and money than you and maybe you will be "blamed" for something, it sounds like the paranoia and chip is on your shoulders. There will always be someone who has more $ and clout than you.

I knew a guy who worked on cars back in the 1970s and a guy kept bringing his Cadillac in for a 'noise'. Finally the shop found the source - which was put in at the factory. There was a beer can with some pebbles in it in the firewall and on the can was a note that said, "Hope you had fun finding this you rich ba****d".

Those who run the lotteries love it when players look for consistency in something that's designed not to have any.

There is one and only one 'proven' system, and that is to book the action. No matter the game, let the players pick their own losers.